Three Occupiers protesting the NATO summit in Chicago were arrested Friday on terror charges.
According to authorities, the three men planned to attack the Obama campaign headquarters, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home, while firebombing police stations and squad cars to divert attention from the main targets.
This marks the second major Occupy-related terror plot in a month. The last being a plot by members of Occupy Cleveland to blow up a bridge in the area.
Undercover Chicago Police infiltrated the alleged Occupy terror cell and observed the three suspects making Molotov cocktails.
The Chicago Sun-Times quotes prosecutors as saying the suspects “allegedly said the city doesn’t know what it’s in for’ and ‘after NATO, the city will never be the same,’ prosecutors alleged in court documents.”
The suspects were identified as Brian Church, 20, of of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Jared Chase, 24, of Keene, N.H.; and Brent Vincent Betterly, 24.
The three alleged conspirators are being held on a $1.5 million bond, and are reportedly anarchists belonging to a radical group that has caused problems at previous protests.
